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The Edge Studio Feedback Forum is the best place for you to post a recording and get feedback from the community! Record in your home studio, upload the file, and see what people think. This is a great place to get some advice on your technique, on your home studio, or to ask for people’s opinion on your reads. Remember, that this is a community forum, so please remain positive and encourage your peers in helpful ways. If Edge Studio feels that a user is too negative, or antagonizing other members of the community, they will have their posts deleted, and risk being banned from further communication.
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Good Evening Everyone! I have more homework and would greatly appreciate your critiques please. I greatly appreciate all of your feedback as I work to improve. Thank you in advance for your time.
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Glen, welcome to the forum and getting into this. I like the voice, it fits and you have good inflections. Recommend you check the gain as you may be clipping. Normalize to -3db with your DAW as it’s coming out pretty high. There are some breaths where you could dial down the amplitude in editing or possibly remove some of the more apparent pre-breathes like at 29.5 seconds.
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Tonight’s homework:
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Wow, listening to these two recordings back-to-back shows just how varied your vocal range is. Nice!
Great choices on how you say “spicy” and “Oh, I just stir up..”
The space you take with the first line of the AEC recording sounds excellent. You really let it breathe and it fits perfectly with the content.
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Hi everyone! These files are for my week 4 homework. I had some issues with normalizing these, so they may sound a tad quiet. Apologies in advance! Any feedback is welcome and appreciated more than you know.
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Hello, sir.
Your voice is definitely friendly! I feel like you’re almost there in nailing the ziplock and amtrack. I’m thinking a little more variation in inflections through each piece would nail it.
For instance: “when it comes out this fresh, you know it went in a ziplock bag”…I see the words ‘this,’ ‘know,’ and ‘ziplock’ like hurdles on the track, and I would raise my entire body each time I said them.
The way you read Cleaner Elections, I felt like I was at the funeral for political ads. Like there was actually no way to change them. Rile up your audience with the first three phrases. Get them on your side with the next two questions. See them in your mind agreeing with you on the adjectives, while you hit each one fairly hard. And make them anticipate the answer to the last question, emphasizing almost every word. See how that might change the read.
On Amtrak, imagine those places in your mind that you agree make America a great and beautiful country to travel. Take it all in in you mind and savor it, maybe even imagine those inspirational cello string instrumentals that run over time lapsed clouds to give the inspirational feel, and that’ll help inform the pace, I think. And slow it down on the phone number, I didn’t get a pen in time! 🙂
Each file was cut off at the end, and I see what you mean about quiet, but it didn’t seem horrible. Like I says, you’re almost there, and you have the talent. Keep up the hard work!
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Hi everyone — here are some reads that I completed! Feedback is welcome 🙂
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I love how you chose to say “if you let it” and “maybe it’s time you’re one of them” in the Invisalign recording. It sounded how a friend would say it. It really felt like you were implying I try Invisalign and that if I didn’t, I’d be sorry. But still in a friendly, almost sly, way. I could feel a little wink behind the words, if that makes sense.
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Hope to get some feedback on my natural delivery. How does it sound? Thanks!
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Hi Logan,
I think it sounds really nice! Your voice is well suited for this kind of commercial, I think! In addition to the other feedback you received, there were some points where you were trying to emphasize a certain word, but I think you ended up forcing the word out with too much air. For example, “HARMony” and “COst” come to mind. But still, great read!
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Dear Forum, any feedback on my video game internet script would be much appreciated!
“As I’m sitting here on this Main Menu looking at this beautiful artwork, I’m just thinking about how far the video game industry has come. And a lot of you guys know this, but the Legend of Zelda is hands down – by far – my most favorite and treasured video game franchise of all time. And it’s probably because it’s the very first video game I ever played… It kind of set me on my path to being a gamer.”
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Great read! Really enjoyed it (especially since I have an affinity for The Legend of Zelda myself). The only feedback I could recommend is you might want to play with variation in the pitch, including the end of your sentences. It’ll make it sound more varied, like you’re talking to someone. Keep up the great work!
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These sound wonderful! I think if you speak more clearly and with more passion, it would really shine. Right now, I feel like the AMEX and Invesco ones were just being read to yourself. Speaking up out and loud with more energy would really promote this to the next level!
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What a resonant and beautiful instrument! Two things, given that you have a read both for a late night jazz radio station and for Goodnight Moon, I immediately thought of my own experience teaching jazz to very young children. We used to sing the text of Goodnight Moon to the tune of Naima by John Coltrane. Maybe try speaking the text while listening to that recording and see what, if anything, it does to change the pacing and/or melodic delivery? I also think there may be opportunities to create more interest in the list of things that the author is saying goodnight to. The word “goodnight” is repeated over and over which makes the things being said “goodnight” TO inherently more interesting. Perhaps try stretching out some of the text and adding a bit more space between the “goodnights?” Great work!
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I like that a lot. I imported it into Adobe Audition so I could get a better look at the waveform. I’m curious, did you normalize it? The whole thing reads really well, and at my level can’t offer much in feedback except that the voice, pacing, etc., were all spot on for this.
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Wow! There is so much great stuff happening here! I also love the pacing and the space between phrases. …”the true story of [space] Algona”… so good:). I have one observation and it may not even be a bad thing, but I notice that your ends of phrases tend to finish at approximately the same pitch. There’s great variety in the beginnings and middle sections of your phrases, particularly “and put to work in farms and factories and even in private homes..”
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